Stupid things you used to say at school

[SushiSheep]

Don't even know why this popped into my head just now, but did anyone else use to say (I'm turning myself inside out just writing this! 😂)
"Marry it/her/him then!" whenever someone said they loved something.

What other cringey things did you use to say at school, or in your youth that makes you think what the......

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In the infants if anyone was spotted doing something naughty people would say "um" usually elongated like "uuuuuummmmm."

We also used to say "the ums won the war in 1984." Not for any reason, we just found it amusing.

“You know for sure” which I think was from the Mary Whitehouse Experience?

We did that too 😂😂

What does that mean?

‘Injection injection no infection’

‘drive on’ (invariable every lesson change a boy would shout this and the whole corridor full of kids would squish forward into each other. Hated that!)

Trying to think of more…. There were loads that were in jokes rather than crazes!

I always wonder how things spread school to school. Pre internet memes I mean. How did we all know how to play tag/tig etc? Every school up and down the country has that.

There was the classic "Chinny reck'on", obvs.

Also a lot of "Godddddd, you can't take a joke!" when you expressed annoyance at someone saying something really horrible.

I think a lot of our other quotes came from The Fast Show 😁

Chinny rack on. Meant I don’t believe you. Didn’t understand it then. Still don’t!

Dogging me up - giving mean looks. “Stop dogging I up” is a sentence I’ve not heard for
some time (semi rough state in Somerset)

Oh!

Doing that thing where you cover your mouth with one hand, and hover your other hand over someone’s head, and count how long it takes that person to notice. That number of seconds = how many boyfriends/girlfriends that person has. Me and DH grew up different ends of the country and both did that in school.

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Doing the elongated ‘ummmm’ but with your tongue behind your bottom lip and then drumming your fingers on the bulge.

Ha I’m from the same place but we didn’t have chubby reckon. Definitely ‘dogging me up’ though!!

”If destroyed still true love
If not destroyed still true love”
obviously 😆

The old classic..
"John and Sally kissing in a tree.
K.I.double S. I. N. G.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage."

It takes one to know one.

He who smelt it dealt it.

Haha these are making me laugh!

Also, saying “Believe ya” when you obviously don’t, with the accompanying eye roll 🙄

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also had chinny reckon at my school for not believing someone.
calling someone Joey while pulling a face
what no etc
uuuummm veeee when you catch someone being slightly naughty
shouting C.O.H if there's a coincidence

so many strange things lol

I still use chinny reckon now and I’m pushing 40. I’m not in the slightest bit sorry.

Sadly,’poor Joey Deacon was a prime target when inwas at school in the 80s

We did IDST (if destroyed still true)

I'm cringing just typing that.

"your mum" was a pretty standard response to anything when I was at school.

When there was a fight in the playground, everyone would crowd round chanting, “A-G, A-G-R, A-G-R-O, Aggro!!” over and over till it got broken up.

Not 'Umadumadum'? That was our goto phrase of outrage and disapproval.

Chinny reckon was from rubbing your chin to express disbelief. See also Jimmy Hill who had a big chin. I have a vague memory that Chinny reckon was from Grange Hill, maybe they didn’t want to name a BBC staffer in a playground chant.

I know you are but what am I?

Yes. Very sad the way his mannerisms were used as an insult up and down the country.

Some of these are new to me!
Maybe I should start saying them…

Oh nil.

Shut it Leonard.

Then in sixth form half of what Vic & Bob used to parrot. Uvavu.